Thank you so much!!!This is exactly the kind of stuff I was hoping
for...going to see the
onc at 3:00 pm...it was just in time! Thanks again..
Torie
At 09:51 PM 12/9/97 EST, you wrote:
>Dear Carla and Torie
>
>Welcome. I just received newsletter from ICAR (International Cancer Alliance)
>with article I thought you both might be interested in.
>Lung Cancer after surgery- A new immunotherapy used in combination
>with conventional treatments appears to significantly increase survival rates
>in
>patients with operable lung cancer. The procedure, adoptive-immunotherapy
>with interleukin (IL-2) and Lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells, is
>combined
>with either chemotherapy or radiation therapy as a follow-up to surgery.
>"In a study involving 174 lung cancer patients, the new procedure was tested
>head-to-head with the standared treatments. The standard treatments compared
>were: no adjuvant therapy (when the surgery was considered "curative");
>radiation alone or chemotherapy alone (when the surgersy was "noncurative").
>The overal 5 year survival rates for patients using the new immunotherapy
>procedure were reported to be 54% versus 33% for the conventional treatment.
>The 9-year survival rates were similar 52% for the immunotherapy treatment
>versus
>24% for the conventional.
>Further analysis of 5-year survival rates showed the following comparisons
>between
>the treatments.
>Cancer Category Immunotherapy Conventional
>"Curative" 65% 41%
>"Non Curative" 43% 21%
>Adenocarcinoma 47% 23%
>Squamous cell 62% 35%
>>From CANCER July 1997
>
>Hope this is something you can check on and will help you out.
>Take care
>Diana
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